Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1912 to 1914) 🇺🇸

October 11, 2024

Wallace Beery — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Wallace Beery

“I write, produce and take the lead in my own pictures. My record so far is to write and produce a picture in six hours. Easy!”

Lottie Briscoe — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Lottie Briscoe

“I was the first legitimate star to go into pictures

Charles Clary — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1912) | www.vintoz.com

Charles Clary

“I’ve never been interviewed by a girl in my life”

Flora Finch — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Flora Finch

“I try to be funny in my appearance and my actions on the screen: funny but never repulsive. Always odd, but never repulsive”

Alice Joyce — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Alice Joyce

“In the fall one wants to be right in New York; there is everything one wants in New York”

Clara Kimball Young — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Clara Kimball Young

“Fat? It’s the new kind of skin-food I’m using!”

James Kirkwood — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

James Kirkwood

“Terrible times I’ve had in New York — terrible!”

Adrienne Kroell — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1912) | www.vintoz.com

Adrienne Kroell

I just love the work because there is always something new and the players have time to live like real people

 Florence LaBadie — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Florence LaBadie

“‘Lab-a-die’ is the correct way, but I don’t mind how it is pronounced. It should have been ‘Smith’”

Hughie Mack — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) | www.vintoz.com

Hughie Mack

“If I was dressed as a messenger boy, it must have been a hot day”

Boyd Marshall — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Boyd Marshall

I seemed to fill the requirement of the youthful lead, so here I’ve been ever since”

Gertrude McCoy — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Gertrude McCoy

“There’s always more fun in doing what one shouldn’t do”

Marc McDermott — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) | www.vintoz.com

Marc McDermott

“Fiery red [hair was] the curse of my young life, but thank heaven, I was spared watery blue eyes”

Harry C. Myers — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) | www.vintoz.com

Harry Myers

“My work in pictures has earned me the title ‘dare-devil.’ There is nothing I have been asked to do that I didn’t do”

Miriam Nesbitt — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Miriam Nesbitt

“I’m dreadful at higher mathematics”

Muriel Ostriche — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Muriel Ostriche

“It’s been a rush from one scene to another and from the studio to the dressing-room and back again. And that’s what I love — lots of rush”

George Periolat (1874–1940) | www.vintoz.com

George Periolat (December 1912)

“Photoplays are the greatest things in the world, today; and they’ve just started. The players who get into them now, while the profession is still young, are lucky”

Kate Price — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Kate Price

I put my foot in my mouth every time I open it, and I can’t tell you any pretty tales to make a story out of; all I can do is tell you the truth”

Marguerite Snow — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Marguerite Snow

Appearance is a study, and clothes are as much a part of this study as grease-paint and wig”

Richard Travers — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) | www.vintoz.com
Richard Travers
Richard Tucker — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Richard Tucker

“Not that I would have objected to becoming president of the bank, some day, but there were several men ahead of me who would have had to die first

Robert Warwick — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Robert Warwick

“I believe too, that the object should be to project thought, in making a meaning clear instead of gesticulating. These are simple methods, but simplicity always scores strongest”

Bryant Washburn — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Bryant Washburn

“I’m usually cast as ‘heavy’ but in the picture we came here to make, I have a straight part. The character and I last throughout the four reels.”

Pearl White — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Pearl White

“I can do the most daring things and not get a scratch, but the minute I try something easy I nearly lose my life”

Crane Wilbur — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

Crane Wilbur

“It’s necessary to be in touch with things right at their heart, with all due respect to Jersey.”

William A. Williams — Sans Grease Paint and Wig (1914) | www.vintoz.com

William A. Williams

“I began my stage work as a quartet